Missing so many features

Like most people here, I switched from Cable to YouTube TV. Although it seemed great at first, I’m considering switching to Sling or PlayStation Vue as there are so many things that are frustrating:

1. It is really hard to see what shows are new and which ones are not. I don’t really care about reruns. I’m fine to record them since there are no options to avoid that but it would be better to separate new ones from reruns.

2. Once I’ve watched an episode, there is no indication anywhere that I’ve watched it. This means you have to remember which episodes you’ve watched and which ones you haven’t. This is extremely painful when you follow a lot of shows and have to look at the description of each episode to remember where you’re at unless you watch something like Jeopardy; in that case you’re totally screwed.

3. If you pause an episode, the playback position is not saved. Again you have to remember where you were in the episode so that you can fast forward to where you left (if you didn’t forget to check before pausing the day before). This makes things extremely frustrating when the show switched from DVR to On Demand as you get commercials each time you try to seek to where you left off the day before.

4. Switching from one device to another doesn’t work. You have to note where you are in the recording so that you can fast forward to that position and finish watching on a different device.

5. I’m not sure if this is an issue for all the Apple devices but if I lock my screen, then unlock it, I can no longer control my Chromecast. I have to close the app completely, reopen it, reconnect to Chromecast and then I can play/pause, fast forward... again. This happens on both on an iPhone 6 and iPod Touch 5.

I’m very disappointed by Google. The functionality of YouTube TV are just not good except maybe for live TV. Anything regarding the DVR is pretty bad. This is not user friendly at all.

AL-813 about YouTube TV, v1.09.10